3+ week, 3+ day ago   (325+ words) The Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, is repatriating 24 objects to Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes based in Oklahoma in compliance with NAGPRA. The Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, has surrendered 24 objects from its collection to their Native American communities…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (581+ words) The gift also includes a $45 million donation to endow Yeager-Crasselt’s position and to fund a wing named for the donor, which will be designed by Annabelle Selldorf, an in-demand architect among arts institutions. Selldorf is very familiar with the Massachusetts…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (355+ words) Crystal Bridges Museum has named its next chief curator: Courtenay Finn, who joins from the Orange County Museum of Art. The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas, announced that the appointment of Courtenay Finn…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (533+ words) Named for a nearby natural spring, Crystal Bridges brings world-class American art to a rural area far from the nation’s art capitals. (Bentonville’s population was about 35,000 in 2011; by last year it had grown to about 63,000.) In many ways they’ve certainly…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (590+ words) Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum, will lead the Smithsonian American Art Museum, a target of Trump's content review. The Smithsonian on Tuesday named Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, currently the executive director and CEO of the Peabody Essex…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (304+ words) A group of historians and volunteers has been documenting wall labels across the Smithsonian Institution as the Trump administration pushes for changes to how American history is presented in federal museums, according to The Washington Post. The effort, organized under…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (172+ words) The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) acquired the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed property Fountainhead in the Fondren neighborhood of Jackson following the approval of the Jackson Planning and Zoning Board and City Council on Friday. Originally called the Hughes House…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago   (397+ words) Undaunted by all this change, longtime Studio Museum director and chief curator Thelma Golden has labored tirelessly to bring the institution to its new home, spending most of her days on site while the museum was under construction. The fruits…...

10+ mon, 2+ day ago   (394+ words) The Congolese artists point out that renowned institutions like Tate, the Stedelijk, and the Ludwig Museum grew from fortunes that stemmed from plantations. In recent years, museums have expressed their wishes to rethink their pasts, returning looted objects, acknowledging the…...

10+ mon, 5+ day ago   (352+ words) The Studio Museum in Harlem has revealed that it is one of the few US museums to own a Basquiat painting. Ahead of its public reopening on November 15, the Studio Museum in Harlem showed off its new building to the…...